Photograph

F01.020

Photograph
Creation Date
July 17 1929

Dimensions

6.75 inches H x 16 1/8 inches W Images

Approximate measurement of the image only.

7 7/8 inches H x 17 1/8 inches W Frames

Description
 In the later years of the 1920s and into the later 1940s, those children and teens who succeeded in graduating from the eighth grade all gathered together at a town in Fillmore County from their rural schools scattered across the county. As graduating classes in well-established town schools may have had pictures taken of them in the past, this opportunity presented afforded those in small, one-room schoolhouses in the country to take their own commemorative picture together. Well-known local Lanesboro photographer Matthias Bue took these photos. This is one such picture for the Fillmore County Rural Schools Eighth Grade graduates from 1929. It was taken outside in Lanesboro on July 17, 1929, possibly in Sylvan Park. It is Irene Warren who was in the early years of serving as the Fillmore County Superintendent of Schools. 

The photo is held in a wooden frame with a golden design mounted on the wood.

Contact the Fillmore County Historical Society for more information